super busy and fun day at THINK >. My day started at 4:40 AM. I got up.. and was so happy to feel healthy again after that stomach bug.

I got my gear on and trotted over to the mgm. 

 

there I met my other crazy friends for the 10th annual (my 3rd) red rocks run at think ..

 

at 5:30 we all got on the bus for a 30 min or so ride out of town to red Rocks oark.. 

It was still darkesh when we got there.. 

 

 

here’s the view back over las vegas.. looks so quiet and lean from here !

 

around 6 we took off down the trail. it was just SO BEUTIFUL !

 

I found a good place for a samstone !

 

this one always looks like a turtle to me. 

 

we’re now about hlfway. good time for selfies and a group pick 

 

then the 3.5 miles back. about 6.4 miles all together.. 

 

then back on the bus.. and back to the hotel around 9:30 

 

I ran back to the hotel. showered. and jumped in to think. I ran into so many old friends.. adn som new ones

 

liek this guy Bill. he used to be my sister Mary’s room mate in Boston about 20 years ago !!!!

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talks today were good !> .. here’s my firen Talia tlaking abot Quantum computing 

 

a high point of the day was running into my 14 year old very bright friend Tnamay and his parents !

 

also got meet with my freind ROb !

 

so good seeign them both 

 

 

I had meetigns until 7. ten a really nice japonese dinenr wiht my freinds Susan and Markus.. really delicious sushi !

 

Markus had brought some  bling !

 

ok.. cant keep my eyes open any longer. 

time for sleep..

nite all. nite sam

-me

 

In bed by 10 pm on a quiert night in vegas.. I feel like a bit of a party pooper. but I’m still; not feeling 100% well. 

THink  has been really good so far. I’m seeing SO many old friends.. and learning some very good new stuff. 

I ran into my friend Nakagawa san from Honda Japan 

 

 

 

seen lots of travis and sigi 

 

got to see the boss talk 

 

 

lots of folks doing there email druign meetings.. – wierd 

 

heres alex.. he showed me a cool voice assitant device he had built

 

 

big crowd !

 

My hero   John K

 

our IoT masarati 

 

hung out with vy very good buddy Spa

this place is so unreal !

 

ok.. goign to try to sleep and shake this big.. 

nite all. nite sam

-me

I apologizeto everyone for missing a night of blogging last night. I dont like to do that. I am out in vegas… and wasnt feeling great.. I had a fever and stomach bug all day .. by dinner I was doing my best to stay soial.. but by 11 I was feeling pretty yucky. By midnight I was in my hotel bed shivering and …. ill spare you the details.. experincing ‘gastric distress’

Somehow I managed to fall asleep….I woke at 7:30 feeling great !… maybe a little wrung out.. but otherwise healthy.

feeling greatfull that itall went through me quick..  hoping i

ve shaken it off.. 

good example of ‘what happens in vegas stays in vegas ‘

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

This weekend was an interesting study in ‘hurry up and relax’. I have about 48 hours at home.. and I am trying to fit as much nothing in as I can

 

‘nothing’ includes time with family.. .. time in my shop.. which desperately needed cleaning

CLeaning my shop is catahartic.. . its a great metaphor for clearing a crowded and busy mind. 

 

you might not be able to see the  big difference here.. but it involved sorting a bunch of electronics, fixing a tesla coil. 

sorting tools. putting away chemicals.. I’m a new man when it’s done. 

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one thing that turned up during my cleaning were some huge smoke-bombs made by my buddy scott.   they are only potassium nitrate and paraffin . !

lighting one of those contributed to the cleaning !

 

 

Diane and I tried to o get the girls out for a  hieke. but it was still too cold .. It was over 10 degress. but had been -5 F  ~ -21 C

last night. THe dogs revolted and woulnd’t hike.. so we brought them home and went back on our own. We followed our own tracks from yesterday up the hill. it was slow going in all that snow.. still more than 2 feet deep. . I made a point of steppign on the places I’d missed yesterday in order to better smooth the trail for the next folks coming through. 

 

here’s in front of us. 

 

here’s what I left behind. 

I dropped by the makeshift lean-to we found and placed a samstone  there. 

 

 

now .. gettign sleepy. goign to play soem pool then go to sleep..

more from the road tomorrow. 

nite all. nite sam

-me